[1] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, executed with minor alterations

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    - Hertford Street, number 10 (now Sheridan House), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne, 1769-71 (15)
      - Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, executed with minor alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 13/145

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central medallion, encircled by a fluted frame, four anthemia, a lozenge-shaped frame ornamented with miniature rosettes, festoons, and the whole is set within an oval frame of reed and ribbon, which extends into a guilloche pattern, with four roundels on each side of the oval, each containing a medallion, and a segmental compartment on each side, each containing an urn flanked by winged sphinxes, and between these portions of guilloche are four quadrilateral compartments containing urns flanked by winged griffons, and the whole has a border with a medallion in each corner, enclosed within a fluted frame, and between these are compartments of rinceaux, within frames ornamented with miniature rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Front Room one pair of Stairs at Colonel Burgoyne's House

Signed and dated

1769
Robt. Adam Architect 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including pink, olive green and violet on laid paper (582 x 426)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Draper, 1999, p. 130
King 2001, Volume I, p. 309
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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